Douglas Shuler is officially my hero. As if his amazing Zatanna piece wasn’t enough, Doug recently asked me to collaborate on a Wonder Woman tribute with some stellar results.

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I just wanted to post a super quick update to share a cool new piece of gift art based on my Wonder Woman tribute to Michael Turner. The most amazing thing about this new piece is that it is all burned into wood. The illustration is done by a method known as Pyrography. I’ve pasted his description of the process below.

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I tend to cosplay characters I have an interest in, meaning I will spend full evenings browsing through galleries of my favorite heroines on Deviant Art. A few weeks ago I was catching up on the new Zatanna tributes and was blown away to find a new piece that had more than a slight resemblance to yours truly. When checking through my notes and comments later that night, I realized that a few friends had already given me a heads that the amazingly talented artist Adriana Melo used my mug as reference for a stunning pinup.

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Spring and summer always signal my life dissolving to complete chaos due to the start of convention season. Between work and play - video game events and cosplay opportunities - I am traveling almost every weekend or busy in my basement polishing off a costume. This is my best effort to stay organized in terms of cosplay, by planning ahead what costumes I intend to debut and at what event. Below you will find the cons I plan on attending both locally and nationally, with a few hopefuls thrown in there if I can scrounge up the funds. I also included a skeleton for my photoshoot schedule in 2010.

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Hey all! Exciting news!

You may remember that back in June I was the “Fangirl of the Month” over at PanelsonPages.com. A month or so ago they contacted me to see if I wanted to be a part of their 2010 “Fangirl of the Month Calendar” and naturally, I agreed!

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A couple months back I was approached by artist and all around cool guy Carter Allen about doing reference work for his comic, The Adventures of Nikki Harris. I agreed right away, as I loved the vector-inspired style that he used in the books.

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I really am spoiled. I recently opened my inbox to find not one or two but FOUR sketches of yours truly by a fantastically talented artist named Charles Holbert. Two of them are inspired by my Zatanna costume and another two are based on my version Aetheria Earhart. While I love them all, I am most blown away by the one of Zee sitting on the trunk. Anyway, I could gush for hours about how much I love these, or you could just check them out after the jump. Enjoy and be sure to check out more of Holbert’s work here!

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I am not going to deny that I am lucky. In the past few years I have had several phenomenal artists use my cosplay images for reference in their art. The newest piece I received is by Suzanne Van Pelt, who goes by Anathematixs on Deviant Art. Evidently she was strolling the site looking for inspirational images and came across my Witchblade cosplay. As a fan of Witchblade herself, she contacted me and asked if I would mind if she used it as reference for a piece. I had no hesitations after looking at her amazing work, which appears to be done primarily in Photoshop with the aid of a Wacom tablet.

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Just this past weekend I was approached by an artist looking for reference models for his work. Turns out Douglas Shuler is a longtime artist looking to lend his considerable talents to the comic industry working on covers. In order to develop his portfolio, he needed help. Originally he approached my friend Becky Young to have her aid him with an Emma Frost piece - a character that she embodies fully. When she mentioned that I am known for my Zatanna cosplay, things fell into place.

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